Gps wrote: ↑Fri Aug 14, 2020 11:24 am
Which brings me back to how do they know people died of covid 19.
That is one of the very debated questions.
This is my take on it.
After treating a patient for a serious condition, there are often a 'talk'. In that 'talk' we inform the patient about what he has been through, what have been dome and most important: What are the expectations after this treatment.
Here the life-quality-expectations are the most important, because that is what is most important to the patient!
This may be things like
Patient ask:
"Doctor .. will i be able to play the piano now....?"
Yearee... I dont think there should be any reason for you to not be able to play piano after this treatment.
Patient: Thats brilliant! I have never been able to play piano.......
and then again it may not be..
No- The most important question is about
life-expectation Eg how many years do a patient have after this scare, and what should be done in respect to life-style to
reach that expectation ..or more
If we say that a patient has at least 10 good years, even though his condition is chronic, then that person is in the risk-category in respect to many other deceases -whereas Covid-19 is one.
And here is the important part
In case this patient now dies several years before his expected 'time', then I have NO doubt that this IS a covid-19 death,
even though his condition was severe and chronic!
So NO he did not die because he 'once' had liver-failure, because he would still be alive!
Yes he IS a covid-19 victim, because covid-19 was the factual reason for him NOT reaching his
life-expectation
That is vigorously -well almost aggressively disputed. Trump for one has next to demanded, that anyone with any kind of previous medical condition, that now dies due to Covid-19, does
NOT registrar as a covid-19 deceased, but as one deceased from the precious condition, witch would make the covid-19 crisis, and his denials of the same, seam to be less severe.
You know what? That makes me mad!
So Gps, the issue is not so much that deceased are being booked as 'death from covid-19' as them being booked for NOT!
So indeed..
'Technical clever' manipulations of statistical materials are being done, but it is
not in order to make the covid-19 situation look worse, it is in order to make it look less severe.